Congratulations on being awarded the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Prairie Star Award ( that award title is a mouthful !) You certainly deserve it ! There is no column-weekly essay- whatever- that I have read for so many years and still look forward to seeing what you have thought of and written about each week. You deserve the award for two big reasons : 1. You are a durn good writer ( love your style - and my being a seventh grade English teacher for twenty years should count for something), 2. Just for staying with it that long! :). I started reading your essays probably in the nineties in some farm publication ( I consider myself a rural person), and have followed your writing ever since. And I love your "writing shack"! I have wanted such a place in some remote corner of my farm, but not to write- just to hang out.
Keep doing what you're doing!. It took me a few days to figure out to click on the loooong link and read the article about your award !
Congratulations on being awarded the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Prairie Star Award ( that award title is a mouthful !) You certainly deserve it ! There is no column-weekly essay- whatever- that I have read for so many years and still look forward to seeing what you have thought of and written about each week. You deserve the award for two big reasons : 1. You are a durn good writer ( love your style - and my being a seventh grade English teacher for twenty years should count for something), 2. Just for staying with it that long! :). I started reading your essays probably in the nineties in some farm publication ( I consider myself a rural person), and have followed your writing ever since. And I love your "writing shack"! I have wanted such a place in some remote corner of my farm, but not to write- just to hang out.
Keep doing what you're doing!. It took me a few days to figure out to click on the loooong link and read the article about your award !
Kay C. Southwestern Illinois
What a well deserved honor !